THINKing » Brainstorming http://www.my-creativeteam.com/blog My CreativeTeam Thinks About Creativity, Marketing, PR & Social Media Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:40:12 +0000 en hourly 1 Creativity 2011 – Week #48 http://www.my-creativeteam.com/blog/creativity-2011-week-48/ http://www.my-creativeteam.com/blog/creativity-2011-week-48/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:30:49 +0000 Harry Hoover http://www.my-creativeteam.com/blog/?p=2685

Your Creative Genius Mindset - Creativity allows us to think outside of the box, around the box and through the box in an imaginative and free flowing manner.

8 Counter-Intuitive Ways To Improve Your Well-Being & Creativity –  To help you break the busy-ness cycle and work happier, we’ve rounded up a handful of counter-intuitive ways to tweak your habits and your mindset.

29 Ways To Stay More Creative – Make lists, carry a notebook everywhere, and 27 more!

9 Types Of Brainfood For Writers – Did you know that some foods can support brain function—and maybe even make you a better writer?

Smile. They Can’t Commoditize Creativity – Both Britain and America have forgotten that creativity is a core strength and a reason to be not just proud, but extremely optimistic also.

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How To Innovate More – Like the old joke about how you get to Carnegie Hall: practice, practice, practice.

6 Ways Social Networks Can Boost Creativity - There are six important things to look for when evaluating a new social network for its creative thinking potential.

Why Education Without Creativity Isn’t Enough –  To compete long term, the US needs more brainstorming, not memorization; more individuality, not standardization.

Mashup Culture Gets Innovative - Sometimes innovation is as simple as turning a ketchup bottle upside down. But what about putting bug repellent in clothing or carbonation in milk? It’s convergence culture gone wild.

The Six DNA Strands of Innovation Leaders –  The traits of innovation leaders can be acquired; none were born exceptional innovation leaders, rather, many have adjusted their skills, communication styles, work disciplines and cognitive capacity to get to where they are today.

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Are Introverts Better At Fostering Innovation? - Introverts tend to be responsive rather than reactive, avoiding costly mistakes and giving employees the confidence they need to be creative.

5 Ways To Kill A Brainstorming Session - As brainstorming has become customary, has it also lost its sparkle, and value, for your company? Here’s where you may have gone wrong, and what to avoid in the future.

7 Types Of Creative Block & What To Do About Them - When you rely on your creativity to pay the bills and build your reputation, you can’t afford to be short of ideas or the energy to put them into action.

A Message To Those Who Believe They Are Not Creative  - Saying you aren’t creative is like saying you aren’t human. Sorry to blow your cover, but you’re hiding something great about yourself.

Marissa Mayer: Idea Connector - Companies need formalized processes for people with ideas to get to people with the influence to move on them. Google VP Marissa Mayer discusses her role as Idea Connector at Google.

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9 Steps For Creative Problem Solving – [Infographic] In business, the process of generating and commercializing a good idea has been honed by creative industries for more than a hundred years. This infographic presents nine major steps toward creative problem solving for new product development.

17 Resources To Awaken Your Right Brain –  For all those looking to be more right brained, here are 17 resources to help.

How To Survive Creative Burnout - The longer you work at creating things, whether it’s software, websites, essays or paintings, the greater the odds you’ll hit a day where you don’t feel like doing it anymore.

The Creative Discipline - Creativity is less an art than a discipline–and surprisingly practical and accessible.

How To Train The Aging Brain – Can an old brain learn, and then remember what it learns? Put another way, is this a brain that should be in school?

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Getting Started - Whether we plan to create a performance, composition, essay, or mousetrap, we have to launch our project and work on it regularly.

Need A Brilliant Idea? Steal It - When you can borrow and build off of ideas from other entrepreneurs and companies, do it.

Diversifying Your Creative Work – What do you do when your primary creative endeavor does not support you enough emotionally or financially?

60 Examples Of Creative Typography – Type can be used very effectively as a design element.

How Do You Measure The Value Of Creativity In A Brand? –  Brands are actually valuable business assets and should be treated with care, creativity, and innovation.

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To Cultivate Innovation, Work Like An Artist - How do we put ourselves in a frame of mind where we can receive inspiration when it comes to us? Think like an artist.

Writer’s Block: How To Break Through – Sometimes to break writer’s block, you need to start at the end and not the beginning.

The Creative Power Of Thinking Outside Yourself – New research shows that we can think of more creative ideas for other people than for ourselves.

23 Reasons Why Brainstorming Fizzles-  How many times have you participated in a brainstorming session, only to be underwhelmed by the utter lack of follow up? Unfortunately, in most businesses, this is often the norm.

Why Visualizing Creativity Is The Road To Marketing Success – Spontaneity and expression that are the hallmarks of inspiration and the creative mind can sometimes conflict with business environments that look for understanding, deliverables and accountability, meaning that the time spent on brainstorming ideas and gathering inspiration is limited.

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Idea A Day – You never know what idea will pop up here. For instance, encourage more men to visit the dentist by opening topless clinics.

Creativity Brain Games –  Games, questions, and challenges to improve creative thinking.

20 Points – A 20-point checklist developed by Wen Winger to help you solve problems.

Heads Up! - New ideas from all areas of human endeavor to get your little gray cells jumping.

Lingzini – The online naming application to help you develop product and service names.

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9 Ways To Keep Innovation Alive In Your Organization - When your company has an existing, proven method of conducting business, it can be a struggle to keep innovation alive.

How Good Stress Breeds Creativity – Those of us in the trenches know a little “good stress” can actually help boost creativity and innovation.

Failing To Innovate While Surrounded By Ideas - We have an inexhaustible source of creativity, ideas and innovation, which if applied correctly can create solutions to many challenges.

How To Thrive In A World Of Elusive Creativity - Very few companies actually know how to develop, retain, and unleash creativity to drive their business.

Clever Bench Advertising – Interesting ads on public benches.

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Reaching Your Superconscious With Help From Da Vinci – Da Vinci used a technique called streamwriting for harnessing his superconscious, and for examining his own thoughts from a different perspective.

You Have Amazing Powers Of Creativity  - The human brain’s ability to create all-new images is amazing, and this creative power is a normal part of every human brain.

How To Be A Faster Writer - It’s no secret that writing is hard … but why can’t you be one of those special few for whom it comes easily? A little training and you, too, can join the speedy writers.

5 Rules For A Creative Culture – Rule #1 – avoid rules.

Ideas: Perhaps The Last Inexhaustible Commodity - The story of development is the story of identifying and exploiting seemingly inexhaustible commodities. We are still shifting to discover the next inexhaustible commodity, even though it is right in front of us.

 

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Creativity is one of the key topics we discuss here at THINKing. So, we decided to develop a series of posts that focuses on ways to boost your creativity. Today’s boost: the mindtrip.

A mindtrip is a way to find a novel solution to a problem by looking at it from a different perspective. For instance you take very specific mindtrip, by examining the problem from the perspective of someone from history. Let’s say you want to generate more wealth and you look at the problem through the eyes of Andrew Carnegie.

Or, you can make it more fanciful, just letting your mind wander and grabbing the first image that comes to mind and following it.  Innovation Tools has an example of the more fanciful approach,

Here’s an example: Sally needed a better place to study for her exams. Her roommates distracted her and she did not want to go to the library. She needed a new way to think about it so she went on an excursion. The image of a mushroom popped up in her mind. She pretended she was inside a mushroom. It was cool and damp as though in a cave. The walls were nubbly and moist. There was a faint pulse as though the mushroom was breathing – it was a little like a heartbeat…

Sally thought, “Heartbeat… it would be comforting, as though I am in a womb. It would block out other distracting noise. That is what I will do. I will record my heartbeat and then play it back into earphones. Wherever I am will be a place to study.

So, the next time you need to find a solution, go on a mindtrip.

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